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MAASAI OUTREACH MISSION PROGRAMME

Country: Kenya, Type : Mission Tours

Day 1 – Arrive Nairobi

On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta Airport, East Africa’s hub you will be met with a bottle of water and an African welcome kit and transferred the hotel for your overnight, with a light dinner on the way or at the hotel.

Day 2 – Simba Village – Tania Integrated School

After your breakfast you will have a thirty minutes drive to Ngong Division just in the borders of Nairobi and Kajiado District. To the Shelter rehabilitation centre that is a symbol of hope for orphans and vulnerable children through community participation and empowerment, rehabilitation, provision of basic needs and promotion of children rights in Kenya with an emphasis on Kajiado District and its surroundings. The centre also offers training and outreach programs targeting other vulnerable groups in the community such as youth, single mothers and people living with HIV/AIDS. After that you will visit the Ngong Methodist Church Feeding programme for the needy and slum children and stay with them over lunch hour before proceeding to Tania Intergrated School. Tania is located in the Masai land of korna baridi some few Kilometres from Kiserian. This is a centre mainly for the disabled children who are also needy and they provide them with basic needs and education as well as a rescue centre for young Maasai girls rescued from early forced marriages, female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Maasailand. Later return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3 – OLORGESAILLE PREHISTORIC SITE _ OLE KEMUNKE PROJECTS

This day after breakfast you will drive through Magadi Road to Olgesaille Pre - Historic Site.
Olorgesaille was once a hunters' camp on the edge of a now-vanished lake, the site dated to about 750,000 to 1 million years ago has been well-excavated by the archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey. No human remains have been found at the site, but a large heap of fossilized baboons. The site has been renovated and now exhibits on evolution, tools excavated from the site, and historical information on the site. A raised wooden catwalk guides you around a display of fossils on the site dating to over a million years ago. Afterwards drive to the remote area of Ole Kemunke . This mission project was started by the Methodist Church in Ngong as an outreach to show love to the neighbouring Masai Community. So far Ole Kemunke Community has a school for the Maasai children, piped water project, and a women empowerment project in a culture that has historically been dominated by men. . Listening to the stories of these children is a life changing experience. Return to the hotel for Dinner and overnight.

Day 4 – Naire Kiangare - Narok -

After breakfast you drive on to Naire Kiangare on Narok – Mai Mahiu road. This is an interior Masai village where by you will visit the clean and safe water projects . You can help donate or fixing the pipes so as to take water into people households. Afterwards proceed to Narok Town where you will visit an organization promoting and protecting the fundamental rights and freedom of Maasai Women, youth and children by fostering the development of policies and programmes that appropriately address their present and future livelihood. The organization also supports orphaned Maasai girls, those from poor families and those who have run away from Female Genital Mutiration (FGM) that is a culture within the Masai People and forced marriages to access high school and university education. Afterwards you will check in at the hotel in Narok for dinner and overnight at Seasons Hotel .

Day 5 – Masai Mara National Reserve

You will proceed the world famous reserve of the Masai Mara just after your breakfast. This is the most popular game reserve in Eastern Africa. One of the greatest spectacles in the world takes place here from July to October, when wildebeests, antelopes and zebras move from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara in search of fresh grass. The sheer number of animals is astounding. You will arrive in time for lunch at the lodge. Early afternoon will be spent at leisure in the lodge’s swimming pool or having a walk around the lodge, to be followed by game viewing drive later in the evening. Animals expected to be seen in Masai Mara include lion, hyena, cheetah, elephant and giraffes among others. Dinner and overnight will be at the Lodge/Luxurious Tented Camp

Day 6 Masai Mara

Masai Mara will be your home this day. You will be woken up at 6.00am for the morning game drive. This is the best time to see animals as they roam the plains feeding before the heat of the day sends them to the shades, return to the lodge for a late buffet breakfast. The rest of the morning will be spent at leisure. After lunch early afternoon will be at leisure as you wait for the evening game drive at around 3.30pm. The Masai Mara is the ancestral home of the ancient warrior people - the Maasai. Fiercely proud and self- reliant, traditionally pastoral nomads, who have clung to their ancient way of life; living in harmony with their environment and the wildlife, together with their cattle, with whom they share a strong, almost mystical bond. An optional visit to a Maasai Manyata is an interesting opportunity for you to learn their life styles. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Tented Camp

Day 7 – Nairobi

This day you will bid Mara “Kwaheri” or good-bye and proceed to Nairobi with a brief stop at the Masai Town of Narok, and the breath taking Rift Valley view point to arrive in Nairobi in the late afternoon.

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